Australian McDonald’s Music Selection Change Lures Away Unwanted Teenage Crowds

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A McDonald’s in Mount Annan, Sydney Austrailia has been forcing teenagers off of its premises with classical music late at night after The Telegraph reported Friday.
The strategy has been working in attempt to prevent the adolescents from congregating in the area.

“We’ve noticed a reduction in the number of young people hanging around, but we’ll have to reassess it properly in a couple of weeks,” the store’s operations manager, Matthew Watson, told The Macarthur Chronicle. “We play a range of classical and opera music and so far it seems to be working.”

The news is the latest development since a business in Macarthur Square in Campbelltown, New South Wales implemented the change in March 2009The Daily Telegraph reported.
This was done with the venue played songs from. singer-songwriter and producer Barry Manilow on Thursday’s.The Camden Council also conversed about the issue.
People took to The Chronicle’s Facebook page expressing mixed reactions.

“They turn it up really loud when youth are hanging around the car park,” Janeen Brady said in a post on The Chronicle’s Facebook page. “It woke me up at 1 a.m. Tuesday night and it’s only going to get worse as Xmas approaches.”

“I work nights nearby and it has made a massive difference already to the lingering and loitering in the carpark,” Sara Carrick said in her post.

“It’s a shame that classical music supposedly has this impact on people,” user Stef Awns said.